The 'Rules for Wives' are characterized by similar qualities of benevolence and good sense:

"I. Always receive your husband with smiles-leaving nothing undone to render home agreeable- and gratefully reciprocating his kindness and attention.

"II. Study to gratify his inclinations, in regard to food and cookery; in the management of the family; in your dress, manners, and deportment.

"III Never attempt to rule or appear to rule your husband. Such conduct degrades husbands-and wives always partake largely in the degradation of their husbands. "IV. In every thing reasonable, comply with his wishes with cheerfulness- and even as far as possible anticipate them.

"V. Avoid all altercations or arguments leading to ill humour- and more especially before company. Few things are more disgusting than the altercations of the married, when in the company of friends or strangers.

"VI. Never attempt to interfere in his business, unless he ask your advice or counsel; and never attempt to control him in the management of it.

"VII. Never confide to gossips any of the failings or imperfections of your husband, nor any of those little differences that occasionally arise in the married state. If you do, you may rest assured that however strong the injunctions of secrecy on the one hand, or the pledge on the other, they will in a day or two become the common talk of the neighborhood.

"VIII. Try to cultivate your mind, so as, should your husband be intelligent and well informed, you may join in rational conversation with him and his friends.

"IX. Think nothing a trifle that may produce even a momentary breach of harmony, or the slightest uneasy sensation:

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life. Your care to trifles give,
Else you may die ere you have learn'd to live.'

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"X. If your husband be in business, always, in your expenditures, bear in mind the trying vicissitudes to which trade and commerce are subject; and do not expose yourself to the reproach, should he experience one of them, of having unnecessarily expended money, of which you and your offspring may afterward be in want.

"XI. While you carefully shun, in providing for your family, the Scylla of meanness and parsimony, avoid equally the Charybdis of extravagance, an error too common here; as remarked by most of the travellers who visit this country.

"XII. If you be disposed to economize, I beseech you not to extend your economy to the wages you pay to seamstresses or washerwomen, who, particularly the latter, are too frequently ground to the earth, by the inadequacy of the wages they receive. Economize, if you will, in shawls, bonnets, and handkerchiefs; but never, by exacting labor from the poor, without adequate compensation, incur the dire anathemas pronounced in the Scriptures against the oppressors of the poor.

The miscellaneous rules for both husbands and wives, must close our extracts. We should regret that they were so few, but for the fact that the little book itself is generally extant, and that the reader, from these 'samples,' will be induced to seek for kindred specimens at the fountain head:

"I. Should differences arise between husband and wife, the contest ought not to be, as it unfortunately too frequently is, who shall display the most spirit, but who shall make the first advances, which ought to be met more than half way. There is scarcely a more prolific source of unhappiness in the married state, than this spirit, the legitimate offspring of odious pride, and destitution of feeling.

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"II. Perhaps the whole art of happiness in the married state might be compressed into two maxims-'Bear, and forbear;' and 'let the husband treat his wife, and the wife her husband, with as much respect and attention, as he would a strange lady, and she a strange gentleman.'

"III. I trust much caution is scarcely necessary against flirtations, well calculated to excite uneasiness, doubts, and suspicions, in the heart of the husband or wife of the party who indulges in them, and to give occasion to the censorious to make sinister observations; and it is unfortunately too true, that the suspicion of misconduct often produces full as much scandal and evil as the reality.

'Trifles light as air,

Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong
As proofs from holy writ.'

"It is a good rule of reason and common sense, that we should not only be, but appear to be, scrupulously correct in our conduct. And be it observed, that however pure and innocent the purposes of the parties may be at the commencement, flirtation too often leads to disastrous results. It breaks down some of the guards that hedge round innocence. The parties in these cases are not inaptly compared to the moth fluttering around a lighted candle, unaware of the impending danger. It finally burns its wings, and is thus mutilated for life. 'He that loveth the danger, shall perish therein.' 'Lead us not into temptation,' is a wise prayer; and while we pray not to be 'led into temptation,' we most assuredly ought not to lead ourselves into it. I know these remarks will be charged to the account of prudery; but at the risk of that charge, I cannot withhold them.

"IV. Avoid all reference to past differences of opinion, or subjects of altercation, that have at a former day excited uneasiness. Remember the old story of the blackbird and the thrush. 'I insist it was a blackbird.' 'But I insist it was a thrush,' etc.

"The preceding rules, if as closely followed as human imperfection will allow, can hardly fail to secure happiness. And should only one out of every ten readers profit by them, I shall be richly paid for their concoction.

"I cannot conclude this brief essay better, than by adding the following admirable advices of Julia de Roubigné to her daughter, shortly previous to her death:

"Sweetness of temper, affection to a husband, and attention to his interests, constitute the duties of a wife, and form the basis of matrimonial felicity. These are, indeed, the texts from which every rule for attaining this felicity is drawn. The charms of beauty, and the brilliancy of wit, though they may captivate in the mistress, will not long delight in the wife. They will shorten even their own transitory reign, if, as I have seen in many wives, they shine more for the attraction of every body else than of their husbands. Let the pleasing of that one person be a thought never absent from your conduct. If he love you as you would wish he should, he would bleed at heart should he suppose it for a moment withdrawn; if he do not, his pride will supply the place of love, and his resentment that of suffering.

"Never consider a trifle what may tend to please him. The greater articles of duty he will set down as his due; but the lesser attentions he will mark as favors; and trust me, for I have experienced it, there is no feeling more delightful to one's self, than that of turning these little things to so precious a use.

"Above all, let a wife beware of communicating to others any want of duty or tenderness she may think she has perceived in her husband. This untwists, at once, those delicate cords which preserve the unity of the marriage engagement. Its sacredness is broken for ever, if third parties are made witnesses of its failings, or umpires of its disputes.'

The volume is neatly printed, in a cheap form, and embraces many articles, of a useful and practical tendency, not enumerated in the title, as quoted above. We commend the work to the public in general, as one eminently worthy of wide circulation and heedful perusal,

THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM, of Nantucket. In one volume, 12mo. New-York: HARPER AND BROTHERS.

THIS work 'comprises the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American ship Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827, with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivors; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British schooner, Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antarctic Ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eightyfourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south, to which that distressing calamity gave rise.' There are a great many tough stories in this book, told in a loose and slip-shod style, seldom chequered by any of the more common graces of composition, beyond a Robinson Crusoe-ish sort of simplicity of narration. The work is one of much interest, with all its defects, not the least of which is, that it is too liberally stuffed with 'horrid circumstance of blood and battle.' We would not be so uncourteous as to insinuate a doubt of Mr. Pym's veracity, now that he lies' under the sod;' but we should very much question that gentleman's word, who should affirm, after having thoroughly perused the volume before us, that he believed the various adventures and hairbreadth 'scapes therein recorded. Such a capacious maw would swallow, as indubitably veritable, a story we have recently read or heard, of a serpent killed in the East Indies, in whose body was found, neatly dressed in black, the chaplain of an adjacent military station, who had been missed for a week.

HOW SHALL I GOVERN MY SCHOOL? Adressed to Young Teachers; and also adapted to assist Parents in Family Government. By E. C. WINES, Author of 'Two Years and a Half in the Navy,' and 'Hints on a System of Popular Education.' In one volume. pp. 309. Philadelphia: WILLIAM MARSHALL AND COMPANY.

THE author of this volume, as preceptor of the ' Edge-Hill School,' New-Jersey, not less than by his published writings on education, has acquired high and deserved celebrity, as an accomplished instructor, 'thoroughly grounded in all good works,' connected with the religious, moral, and intellectual welfare of children and youth. The little book under notice, supplies, we think, an important desideratum. The plan of the author was, to make it practically useful; to produce a manual which might be at all times safely consulted, in aid of that most necessary branch of the teacher's duties, government. And in this he has entirely succeeded. The law of kindness-not unmixed with sternness, when required, which is then but kindness-appears to be our author's guide. The volume is printed in a convenient form, and with a neatness of execution that would do no discredit to the richest annual.

A VOICE TO YOUTH. Addressed to Young Men and Young Ladies. By Rev. J. M. AUSTIN. In one volume. pp. 390. Utica: GROSH AND HUTCHINSON.

IF good inculcations, various in kind, yet all essential, conveyed in plain, simple, and chaste language, with important directions in relation to the education and general conduct of youth, of both sexes, be deemed worthy of extension, we look to see the little volume before us widely disseminated. It claims, and justly, to inspire aspirit of cheerful devotion, a correct taste, and a pure and affectionate morality among the rising generation.

EDITORS' TABLE.

Intermingled LEAVES OF NOTE-BOOK AND TRAVEL.-Reader, by your leave, we will resume our leaves, as we sit in the light of a transcendent morning, not yet fully dawned in its glory, surveying - whenever, for a moment, the music of the pen ceases from an upper window of the 'Pine Orchard House,' the magnificent scene spread out below. A white fog-serpent, a hundred miles in length, is undulating his humps along the Hudson, and with head erect, is moving gradually on toward Albany. The clouds, born of yesterday's shower down the mountain, arose bright beneath us this morning, having washed their faces clean in their own rain during the night; and now they hang far below, saturate with sunlight, like illuminated billows of floating cotton. Toward noon, perchance, they will gather together again, and flecking with shadows the wide expanse beneath them, as they sail along, suddenly pause and 'discharge their cargo,' the husbandman rejoicing the while, that at last,

The gathered storm is ripe, the big drops fall,

And sun-burnt meadows smoke, and drink the rain.'

We have just been fancying the prospects of grandeur and beauty which may be commanded from the dawn-tipped mountains that bound the view on the north and east- the Green Mountains of Vermont, old Monadnock, and the mighty hills of the 'steady land,' which rise between us and the distant river, that, calmly gliding, parts the abrupt peaks of Holyoke and Tom - the wide-spread fields, the peopled villages, humming with busy industry, the shining streams, and the white churches, upon which they look down. Come hither, ye cockneys, and denizens in populous cities pent, and inhale this mountain air! How many a languid form, lying in sadness upon a bed of pain, awaiting his only solace, the footstep of his physician,' with healing in the creak of his shoes,' would bless this invigorating breeze! What a contrast to the city is here! There, a red-nosed man, with a sandy peruke, walks about the few small and dusty patches of faded green, (called 'parks!') and tapping the reclining pedestrian with his baton, points to a by-law of the city's fathers, suspended from a stunted tree, where frowns denouncingly, 'Keep off the Grass! There, the gutteral airs, hot and sultry, would penetrate the obtusest olfactory, though guarded by a dense moustache, bristling 'like the horns of a centipede;' airs embracing every variety of mauvaise odeur, from the green mantle of the standing pool, to the most piquant cat-effluvia. Here, on the other hand, the whole city, placed on the vast plain below, would dwindle to a speck, and all the nations of the world might there stand assembled, without jostling. Here, there is no elaborate dirt. Here, the mountain wind,

'Most spiritual thing of all the wide earth knows,'

would well nigh revive the dying. But we are forgetting that the Catskills need not our blazon, and also our note-book. Yet must we advise, that the Kauterskill be visited, inasmuch as the scenery around is grand and picturesque, though the fall is little to speak of. It is only slightly 'of the water watery.' The height, however, from which the small stream descends, is an attractive feature in the scene, and doubt

less gave rise to the following impromptu apostrophe, by a distinguished Philadelphian, which we copy from a mutilated мs. before us, ending abruptly in a hiatus:

'Fall down ye falls, before this greater fall,
Glen's, Miller's, Hadley's, Baker's, Jessup's-all!
Bow down your heads, all ye of minor sort,

For of this fall ye all of ye fall short:

Foam, fret, and fidget, roar and make a splash,
Yet Kauterskill will beat you all to smash!'

Although well pleased with His Eminence, the King of the Catskills, we must bid him adieu, and pass, in fancy, from his principality.

You were to join us, at Auburn, reader, if you remember. Well - as we reached from the east, by a level road, the natural basin in which the town reposes, its rim a narrow horizon all around, the coup dœil was imposing, by reason of the gloomy, castellated prison, that loomed frowningly on the north-western suburb, the handsome churches and public edifices, whose white steeples and domes gleamed and flashed in the noontide sun, and the rows of solid stone structures that lined one or two of the principal streets; while the Owasco river, rushing through the village, with a sharp gurgling roar, added a picturesque feature to the scene. The growth of the town has been gradual, but steadily progressive. It has known no retiring ebb; and its internal improvements, of rail-road and canal, with other prominent causes, bid fair greatly to enhance its importance. An estimable friend, himself a pioneer in the region, and a distinguished promoter, in various ways, of the town's prosperity, and justly honored therein, kindly accompanied us through all its borders, impressing us, among other things - not less by his own well-planted, flower-gemmed, and fruitful grounds, than by those of his neighbors, on every hand- with the belief, that with great internal advantages, quiet industry, and good morals, must also be associated good taste and general refinement, to afford a correct estimate of the town, and the character of its citizens. One thing, in passing, we must not omit to mention, since the reader is not altogether uninterested in the matter. From the well-stored and judiciously selected library of our obliging friend, we received a literary treasure of rare value being none other than a мss. volume, written before, or nearly simultaneously with, the invention of printing, by one PETRUS POTERIUS. Whence it came, no one knoweth. Its dingy leaves smell of vanished centuries, and its antiquated orthography would seduce a guffaw from a Quaker. Its contents are very various, and embrace much that is quaint and rich. It is, in short, one of those isolated fragments of ancient literature that sometimes

'Float down the tide of years,
As buoyant on the stormy main
A parted wreck appears.'

But more of this book anon. In introducing portions of it, hereafter, to the reader, we have concluded to imitate certain credible novelists and tale-writers of the day, and state, that the volume was handed to us in the street by a person in a snuff-colored coat, much worn, wearing a red wig, and green goggles, who had been a great traveller, and who found it in the hand of a mutilated mummy, that was brought to him for purchase, by two Arabs, when he was in Egypt.

THE morning was clear and cool, as we rolled over an indifferent turnpike, to where the green Cayuga clasps its verdant shores. There was a fat gentleman in the coach, with a face solemn as a Herculaneum man, who emulated Horace, in the 'Old English Gentleman,' and 'made a joke.' Owing to the roughness of the road, he was induced to remark, that the most delicate girl could not occupy a seat in that vehicle, without very soon becoming a 'bouncing lass!' This was voted 'from fair to middling,' by a flour-merchant, and laughed at by all; but the obese reposed on his laurels. He had flashed out like a fuzee, and did not shine again until we reached Rochester.